Forced to Fight Page #4

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(BREATH ES H EAVILY)

(TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

(CROWD CHANTING) Fight! Fight! Fight!

(CROWD BOOING)

What?

I did what you wanted.

I just came by to say congratulations,

I came by to say thank you.

Now, don't look at me like that,

You don't feel nothing.

Whatever.

I just want this thing to be over.

It Will be.

I promise.

Just keep your end of the bargain,

I keep mine.

Dad, Dad, ljust got a great idea on my...

Hey, what have I told you

about running in the house?

You wanna run, you take it outside!

Hey, Jamesy, uh...

Let's let your dad rest for a while, okay?

I think he's pretty tired.

SHANE:
What? You gonna start crying now?

Nobody likes a crybaby.

Come on.

- Go on.

- SCOTTY:
Come on, James.

You can show me.

Come on, show me the water mill, okay?

(SLAMS TABLE)

Sh*t!

Yeah.

Cool.

Finally finished it, huh?

Okay.

(WHIRRING)

Hey, how'd you finally get it to work?

Fish tank motor.

Due to air pressure,

it starts up the whole thing and makes it work.

Wow.

I knew you were smart, but...

With brains like that,

I'll bet you actually get to build one of

these for real one day, huh?

Listen.

Look, your father didn't mean what he said,

okay?

He's real proud of you.

He's told me like 100 times.

He called me a crybaby.

Okay.

Look, listen.

All right, I don't know what they told you,

all right?

But the truth is that, um...

I did something stupid, okay?

Something real bad.

That's why I got all beat up.

You know, and right now your father,

he's taking it on the chin.

For me.

So if he gets upset once in a while,

don't blame him.

Blame me, okay?

Well, he's right.

I don't wanna be a crybaby

that gets pushed around.

I wanna be strong like him.

James, you are strong.

Sometimes it takes more guts

walking away from something

than it does duking it out, you know?

You gotta stand up for yourself,

but not with your fists,

with your brains, okay?

Hey, I'll tell you something.

These things?

These things are coming off next week.

You think I could try your scooter?

Maybe we should wait a while.

You know, until your bones get strong again.

Till I get strong again?

What, you don't think I'm strong now, huh?

Wanna try me out now? Huh, little man?

Come on. Yeah, right.

(SCOTTY LAUGHING)

See, that's what I'm talking about, kid.

Tell you what, race you to school, okay?

Come on! I'll race you to school.

Oh, hey.

Thank you.

Don't worry, he's gonna be fine.

Yeah? And what about Shane?

(CHEERING)

ALL:
Oh!

(INAUDIBLE)

Uh, dinner's almost ready.

Where's James?

I asked Scotty to take him

for pizza and a movie.

He was kind of upset.

He lost his baseball cap today.

Shane?

Shane.

I talked to Frank today.

Oh, yeah?

- You call him or he called you?

- No. He called me.

He was pretty upset.

I'm so sorry I hurt his feelings.

Who do you think pays for all of this?

Pizza and movies.

It ain't Danny G no more.

This has got to stop.

You made a deal with him,

and he's not even close to honoring it.

What do you want me to do, Connie?

(SHANE SIGHS)

(CROWD CHANTING) Fight! Fight! Fight!

(SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

Hey!

Hey!

Stop! Get him off me!

DANNY G:
Get him! Bring his ass out here.

Listen, you. I know where you live.

I know where your wife lives.

I know where that brat of yours

goes to school.

(GRUNTS)

I asked you to lose and make it look real,

not roll over

like some goddamn wet Chihuahua.

How can I make this look real?

I'm tired of getting the crap kicked out of me

for nothing by guys who can't even fight!

You want real? I'll give you real.

Stand him up.

I just want out of this.

You will be soon enough out of it,

now get your ass back out there and fight.

What are you talking about?

I've already fought tonight.

Now get your ass out there! Get him out there.

Get him out there!

- That one, too.

- Okay, are you okay?

(SCOTTY GROANING)

There you go.

(SCOTTY CHUCKLES)

Thanks.

Oof!

Feels good to have this back again, huh?

Be back in the ring in no time.

Knock those guys out, take them all down.

Hey, you okay?

I just don't get it.

It's like he's a whole new person.

I mean, I know he's incredibly frustrated

and he's worried about money, but...

It's notjust that, though, Con.

What do you mean?

Well, the money's big, yeah.

But taking dives? It's not easy.

But you gotta understand.

Danny has this way

of making you feel special, you know?

You know, I remember when I first started,

he was like this

weird kind of father figure to me...

I mean, you were young.

It's probably even worse for Shane,

you know?

I mean, after our parents split,

he didn't have that father figure,

so it must've been nice

having someone watching his back,

But anyway, Connie, this isn't your fault.

Hey, you and Shane wouldn't even

be in this position if it wasn't for me.

Yeah? If I hadn't screwed up so bad.

Look, we're a family now,

and we'll get through this as a family.

YOU think?

I know.

All right? Whatever it takes.

And now Shane Slavin

versus Joe Sanboon!

Come on, guys, fight!

(TALKS INDISTINCTLY)

(CROWD CHANTING) Fight! Fight! Fight!

Now, that looked real.

Stick him in his car.

Scotty? Scotty.

SCOTTY:
Okay, hold on.

CONNIE:
I'm gonna go and look for him, and

you're gonna stay here and look after James.

- I'm gonna go.

- Shane never came home?

No, I'm gonna go look...

Yeah, all right, all right. What, uh...

- Yeah.

- Okay.

(STAMMERING) S0...

- All right, you need to take him to school.

- Yeah.

Okay, I'll go... I'll go, you stay here.

- All right. Okay, don't worry, don't worry.

- You call me.

- Okay.

- All right?

(MUMBLING)

DRIVER:
Hey, you sure

you know where we're going?

I know where I'm going, man,

just keep driving.

All right, let's go all the way to the top.

Around here.

Follow this all the way down,

then take a right.

Okay, go, go! There, there, there!

Go to that car there!

Okay, stop, stop, stop.

Here you go, man.

Oh. Damn it! Shane.

Shane? Shane!

Get off of me.

I don't need you! I don't need anybody!

The hell you don't! Christ!

Where are your keys so I can drive you home?

Jesus Christ.

Look at you. We need to clean you up a bit.

(SHANE GROANS)

Man.

I can't believe you ended up here.

I haven't been to this spot in years, man.

Hey, you remember when we used to

catch live fish off the dock here

back in the day?

I used to catch the fish.

Everything's a f***ing competition

with you, huh?

- What are you doing here, anyway?

- I'm saving your ass.

I'm gonna drive you home to your family.

I'm only here because of you, anyway.

Don't start, Shane. Dumbass.

God damn it.

(SHANE GROANS)

They got you real bad, huh?

Yeah. Whose fault was that?

Shane, you ready?

She's gonna be home soon.

Hey.

Hey, sweetie.

My God, Shane.

Daddy, are you all right?

SHANE:
What the hell happened to you?

It's just he got in a fight

with those boys at school.

Stop, you're scaring him!

- It's just he got...

- He just what?

Got the crap kicked out of him?

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